Educational psychology

The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life.

On the Success of Failure examines the practice of grade retention in elementary schools.

Early Childhood Studies: A Social Science Perspective explores key issues in early childhood studies from a variety of social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social policy and education.

A vital guide for teachers to help develop professional expertise and knowledge in child and adolescent behaviour.

This book examines the evidence-based interventions that can be used to promote creative thinking skills for children and adolescents in schools.

What role did women's leadership play in the introduction and revival of the Montessori Method in America?

The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century.

The period of adolescence involves growth, adaptation, and dramatic reorganization in almost every aspect of social and psychological development.

How can teachers provide the best learning experiences for students with varying skills and abilities?

An important work from a leading scholar, this book explores self-development from early childhood to adulthood.

This book describes research outcomes on domain-specific serious games.

This book provides a practical, evidence-based guide to teaching introductory Women's and Gender Studies courses.

This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.

The Sourcebook-IV provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems at the secondary and tertiary prevention levels.

Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

This book explores an area that has been somewhat overlooked in the literature to date - the current status and future trends of English education in Oman.

N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers.

This book presents the first comprehensive and systematic review of international research on the value of intellectual styles.

The second edition of Handbook for Counselors Serving Students With Gifts and Talents provides the definitive overview of research on the general knowledge that has been amassed regarding the psychology of gifted students.

This book draws attention to the ways in which an awareness of, and sensitivity to, embodiment can enlighten educational practices.

This edited volume examines a number of topics related to the roles of individual and contextual factors in English as second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) settings by presenting chapters across the three sections of theoretical and pedagogical approaches, teacher and learner research, and research into the roles of technology.

This book examines issues relating to postsecondary transition from high school to college or competitive vocational settings for Autistic adolescents and young adults.

Research shows that by improving the wellbeing of learners, we also improve their learning.

The first volume in this ground-breaking series focuses on the origins and early development of numerical cognition in non-human primates, lower vertebrates, human infants, and preschool children.

The most challenging aspect of creativity is not coming up with ideas, but dealing with emotions: uncertainty, frustration, discomfort.

This highly accessible work, now thoroughly revised, has shown thousands of students and clinicians how to assess and treat childrens emotional and behavioral difficulties from a developmental perspective.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding.

There is a growing demand for educational professionals to develop a more critical understanding of the key and emerging debates in education so that they can better meet the challenges and demands placed upon them.

The field of early childhood education and the science of psychology have a long and closely intertwined history.

This exciting new book from the bestselling authors of The Science of Learning takes complex ideas around teaching and learning and makes them easy to understand and apply through beautifully illustrated graphics.

Fed up with conflicting advice?

Dyslexia affects about 10% of all children and is a potent cause of loss of self-confidence, personal and family misery, and waste of potential.

Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.

This book guides the adoption, design, development and expectation of future digital teaching and learning projects/programs in K12 schools.

Teachers are easily and often criticized.

This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom.

As the cornerstone of applied behavior analysis, functional assessment is supported by a burgeoning literature that focuses on identification of and interventions for aggressive, self-injurious, and other challenging behaviors.

This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical perspectives; * includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and * shows the application of these perspectives to school situations, as well as situations involving other kinds of organizations.

Aggression and Adaptation raises thought provoking questions about interpersonal functioning within social groups.

Original blurb: "e;The volume of writing on educational topics has increased so prodigiously in recent years that the student is likely to lose himself in a sea of print.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

This book describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

With the aim of discussing "e;old"e; and "e;new"e; teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, the work will provide inputs on the following topics: Students' perspectives on media in the classroom, Students and media (as content and as tools for learning), Educational Media Design, Institutional Impact of the integration of Educational Media, Old v.

Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning.